Toilet-powder sifter.



No 848,015. PATENTBD MAR. 26, 1907 F. S. DILWORTH.

TOILET POWDER SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2, 1905 Y Inventor. EjgiZwm-fi.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OF WELLAND, ONTARIO, CANADA.

TOILET-POWDER SIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1907. Y

Application filed December 2,1905. Serial No. 290,026.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SHIRLEY DILWORTH, of the town of Welland,in the county of Welland, in. the Province of Ontario, Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Powder Sifters,of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in toilet-powder sifters; and theobject of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficientsifter in which the perforations or openings will be always closedexcept when the sifter is being used; and it consists, essentially, ofasifter provided with a lid having a substantially rectangular topprovided with perforations, a slide provided with perforations, andspring means for holding such slide normally closed Within therectangular top, one end of the slide being designed to extend throfigha slit in the end of the top and having a handle whereby the slide maybe manipulated, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinaftermore particu larly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of myiimroved toilet-powder sifter. Fig.2 is an enarged sectional view of the top of the can an lid. Fig. 3 is across-section at right angles to the sections shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa detail of the slide.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

A is the can.

B is the lid.

C is the rectangular portion preferably made of such shape for thepurpose of my invention. The rectangular projecting portion C issuitably soldered or otherwise secured in an opening in the lid B and isprovided with perforations C and an end slit C.

D is a slide which is provided with referably an S-shaped spring D,attache to or forming part of the same at one end and a manipulatingcurled handle or knob D, whereby the slide maybe mani ulated. The slideD is placed in position be ore the handle D is curled, and the spring D,extends into a recess formed at one end of the top C. The slide D isprovided with perforations corresponding in number and position to theperforations in the top, so that they register with the same when theslide is pressed inwardly by the handle D When the slide is forcedoutwardly by the spring D, the perforations pass underneath the planeportion of the top, and thereby all egress of the owder is prevented.Not onlythis, but the ossof strength and aroma of the powder iseffectually obviated.

Although Ishow my invention as applied to a toilet-powder sifter, itwill of course be understood that it may be with eipal facility appliedto other receptacles of a li e nature.

What I claim as my invention is The combination with theperforatedrectangular top having a slot at one end, of a perforated rectangularslide havin an S- shaped spring formed at one end an the opposite endextending through the slot and orming a fpressure-handle as and for thepurpose speci ed.-

FREDERICK SHIRLEY DIIIWORTH- Witnesses:

WILLIAM JOSEPH LIVINGSTON, MARGARET SMITH.

